“Who’s ever lost something small and valuable, and then you can’t find it?” asks ER Physician Dr. Travis Stork. Hands go up – including Urologist Dr. Jennifer Berman’s. You know about where it has to be, but that tiny earring or glasses screw is nowhere in sight.

Just cut a piece from an old nylon stocking and rubber-band it over your vacuum-cleaner hose! Dr. Stork explains that the vacuum will suck up all tiny objects in the vicinity, while the nylon mesh keeps them out of the vacuum cleaner’s chamber.